Business Description
Whether due to finances, stigma or geography, very few people have access to one on one or even group therapy. Millions of people have no one to share and process their struggles, dreams, experiences and true selves with. Millions of people feel isolated, disconnected and alone. Trance4mation Games was created seven years ago to develop and to provide mechanisms (communication games and card decks) to bring people together in ways which promote compassion, support, empathy, insight and self-awareness, repair and transform relationships and genuinely connect people to one another.
Thousands of these communication games are presently being utilized nationwide, impacting tens of thousands of lives; from military bases, to wounded warrior project peer mentoring groups, to air force installations and military families nationwide (Warrior Spirit Mission Homefront), to diverse programs inside and outside of prisons and jails nationwide, to include treatment groups with the severely mentally ill and restrictive housing units (Recharge Beyond the Bars Reentry game), these games are being utilized to bring connection, peace and hope to even the most resistant people.
The present challenge, due to lack of capital, is that there is presently little to no marketing to let those in need know these games are available. We seek to initiate an intensive social media marketing campaign to reach to individuals, families, programs and institutions.
Trance4mation Games is proud to be first to market with these powerful communication vehicles which create safe spaces of love and support. We are proud to have established ourselves within military communities and the prison and jail systems. We are proud to have found great success in breaking through the substantial communication stigma barriers of these populations through offering tools of substance which repair and heal relationships with self and others.
What is the purpose of this loan?
A Kiva loan will help us out tremendously. Through an intensive social media and targeted marketing campaign, we can get the word out to millions of Veterans, Service Members and formerly incarcerated people who, without any “tools” to help them to reconnect with those they have had long separations from, have withdrawn into silence and despair.
Most Service Members choose not to break the military stigma of speaking about issues they may be facing to a therapist or even to their loved ones. Without any way to process their pain or give meaning to their war experiences – it becomes buried deep inside. Most formerly incarcerated people also have no way to process their pain and trauma, and suffer in desperate silence. Too often, this withdrawal has resulted in tragedy.
Trance4mation Games has created and nationally launched the first communication “games” designed to meet the social, emotional and communication struggles of returning Veterans and the formerly incarcerated. They provide the mechanism through which those who have devoted themselves to military service and those who have lived through incarceration can sit together, as well as with loved ones, friends and family and heal together.
The Warrior Spirit Mission Homefront and Recharge Beyond the Bars games offer 400 thoughtful pre-designed questions and interactions which generate authentic, supportive and transformative conversations. They provide for genuine support, bonding, bridge-building, insight, trauma/stress reduction, and motivation for change. Proven to breed understanding, compassion, empathy, peace and hope, we can bring humanity to those who have faced great inhumanity.
Through word of mouth alone, a few thousand of these games have been purchased. Please help us get the word out.
Please visit www.missionhomefront.com for information on the evidence-based Warrior Spirit game, and www.rechargethegame.com for the Recharge Beyond the Bars game.